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Ajax 1 First team II. Lyon drew at Shakhtar to complete the round of 16 line-up as the groups ended and Real Madrid suffered a humbling loss.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi top the rankings, but who else has reached a half century? Iker Casillas remains out in front although Cristiano Ronaldo is threatening to catch his one-time team-mate.

UEFA Champions League matchday six brings down the curtain on another thrilling group stage — who will complete the last line-up? Ajax and Bayern are both in the last 16 with a game to spare, with first place in Group E to be settled in Amsterdam.

UEFA Champions League matchday five promises more high-stakes drama across the continent — who will steal the show? Watch the best of the action from Lisbon.

The likes of Monaco, Tottenham and Valencia may be winless but other teams have recovered from worse to go through. Manchester City scored six and both Inter and Dortmund shone again, while Madrid ended their barren spell.

The picture is becoming clearer for the 32 sides heading into the second half of the group stage. What headlines will matchday four bring?

Ajax left it late to get the better of Benfica, who will be looking to turn the tables in the reverse fixture in Portugal. Manchester City went top and Inter impressed on Monday after a weekend where Barcelona starred.

Watch all the late drama from Amsterdam as Noussair Mazraoui scored a dramatic late winner for the hosts. Visningar Visa Redigera Redigera wikitext Visa historik.

List of summer transfers List of winter transfers. How to add a calendar? Keep tabs on the last 16 — all the latest results, fixtures and form guides.

There are great deals to be done in the mid-season transfer window; here are our top ten. The round of 16 contenders can register a maximum of three new eligible players this week.

Frenkie de Jong is the latest in an illustrious list of players who have swapped Ajax for Barcelona.

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Watch all the action from a six-goal thriller in Amsterdam. Lyon drew at Shakhtar to complete the round of 16 line-up as the groups ended and Real Madrid suffered a humbling loss.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi top the rankings, but who else has reached a half century? Iker Casillas remains out in front although Cristiano Ronaldo is threatening to catch his one-time team-mate.

The team won back-to-back Eredivisie titles in and , with all three playing a significant role in the latter.

In , Cruyff returned to Ajax as manager and the team ended his first season in charge with goals from 34 matches. However, Ajax still finished as runner-up to PSV by eight points.

The —89 season saw Dennis Bergkamp , a young forward who had first appeared under Cruyff in , establish himself as a regular goalscorer for Ajax.

Bergkamp helped Ajax to the —90 Eredivisie title and was the top scorer in the division in —91 , —92 and — Ajax again reached the final one year later, but were defeated on penalties by Juventus.

The s was a lean decade for the club with only two Eredivisie championships won. In , Frank de Boer was appointed manager of Ajax and led the club to its first league title in seven years, and record 30th title overall, in the —11 season.

This was followed by back-to-back wins in —12 and —13 to match his three consecutive titles as a player in the s. In —14 , Ajax were again Eredivisie champions, winning four consecutive league titles for the first time in club history.

Although they lost to Manchester United , the lineup they fielded was the youngest ever in a European final at 22 years and days old. Ajax also regularly supplies the Dutch national youth teams with local talent.

Ajax Cape Town was set up with the help of Rob Moore. Ajax has also had a satellite club in the United States under the name Ajax America , until it filed for bankruptcy.

The offices are based in Nea Smyrni , Attica , with the main training facility located on the island of Corfu , hosting a total of 15 football youth academies throughout Greece and Cyprus.

Eddie van Schaik heads the organization as coach and consultant, introducing the Ajax football philosophy at the various Greek football training camps.

Ajax later played in the stadium built for the Summer Olympics hosted in Amsterdam. This stadium, designed by Jan Wils , is known as the Olympic Stadium.

It could accommodate 29, spectators and Ajax continued to play there until For big European and national fixtures the club would often play at the Olympic Stadium, which could accommodate about twice the number of spectators.

In , Ajax moved to a new home ground in the southeast of the city known as the Amsterdam Arena, since known as the Johan Cruyff Arena.

The stadium is capable of holding approximately 54, spectators. The average attendance in —07 was 48,, rising in the next season to 49, The Arena has a retractable roof and set a trend for other modern stadiums built in Europe in the following years.

In the Netherlands, the Arena has earned a reputation for a terrible grass pitch caused by the removable roof that, even when open, takes away too much sunlight and fresh air.

During the —09 season, ground staff introduced an artificial lighting system that has finally reduced this problem considerably.

The much-loved De Meer Stadion was torn down and the land was sold to the city council. A residential neighbourhood now occupies the area.

In , when the club was founded, the emblem of Ajax was just a picture of an Ajax player. In , the club logo was introduced with the head of the Greek hero Ajax.

The logo was once again changed in into an abstract version of the previous one. The new logo still sports the portrait of Ajax, but drawn with just 11 lines, symbolizing the 11 players of a football team.

Red, black and white are the three colours of the flag of Amsterdam. Special kits for away fixtures did not exist at the time and according to football association regulations the newcomers had to change their colours if two teams in the same league had identical uniforms.

The club is registered as a Naamloze vennootschap N. Criticism was brought forth that the legal grid for a naamloze vennootschap would not be suitable for a Football club, and that the sports related ambitions would suffer from the new commercial interests of the now listed Ajax.

In , a Commission under guidance of honorary member Uri Coronel concluded that the IPO was of no value to the club, and that measures should be taken to exit the stock exchange by purchasing back all public shares.

The shirts have been manufactured by Le Coq Sportif — , Puma — , [36] Le Coq Sportif — [37] Kappa — [38] and Umbro — in the past, and by Adidas since until at least In conclusion of the —14 season , Ajax won the Football shirt of the Year award for their black and rose colored away shirt by Adidas.

The annual award was presented by Subside Sports, which had previously given the award to Internazionale , Juventus and the Belgium national team.

The team is composed mostly of professional footballers, who are often recent graduates from the highest youth level Ajax A1 serving their first professional contract as a reserve, or players who are otherwise unable to play in the first team.

They have won the Beloften Eredivisie title a record eight times, as well as the KNVB Reserve Cup three times, making them the most successful reserve squad in the Netherlands.

Their best result in the Dutch Cup was under manager Jan Olde Riekerink in —02, when a semi-final loss to Utrecht in a Penalty shoot-out after extra time, which saw Utrecht advance, and thus preventing an Ajax—Jong Ajax Dutch Cup final.

Now regarded a semi-professional team in their own respect, the only period in which players are able to move between squads are during the transfer windows, unless the player has made less than 15 appearances for the first team, then he is still eligible to appear in both first team and second team matches during the season.

Ajax reserve squad Jong Ajax left the Beloften Eredivisie in , having held a year tenure in the reserves league, having also won the league title a record eight times , , , , , , , It is the amateur team of the professional club AFC Ajax, who play their home matches at the Sportpark De Toekomst training grounds to a capacity of 5, The team was promoted from the Eerste Klasse to the Hoofdklasse ahead of the —12 season, the league in which they are currently competing.

Furthermore, Ajax Zaterdag have also managed to qualify for the KNVB Cup on their own accord on three occasions, namely in , and in , even advancing to the second round before bowing out to Vitesse on 24 September during their last appearance in the cup tournament.

Ajax HVA — was the baseball team of AFC Ajax founded in , and competing as founding members of the Honkbal Hoofdklasse , the top flight of professional baseball in the Netherlands.

The dissolution of Ajax baseball club resulted in the players finding a new sponsor in a mustard manufacturing company called Luycks, while merging with the Diemen Giants to become the Luycks Giants, thus replacing both former clubs.

In , Ajax launched an eSports team, with Koen Weijland as the clubs first signing, making their debut on the Global stage of professional gaming.

As one of the traditional big three clubs in the Netherlands, Ajax have amassed a number of intense rivalries over the years. Listed below are the most significant of the rivalries involving Ajax.

Every year both clubs play the De Klassieker "The Classic" , a match between the teams from the two largest cities of the Netherlands.

The Klassieker is the most famous of all the rivalries in the Netherlands and the matches are always sold out. Over the years, several violent incidents have taken place involving rival supporters, leading to the current prohibition of away supporters in both stadiums.

PSV are also a rival of Ajax, but in terms of tension and rivalry, these matches are not as loaded as the duels with Feyenoord. The rivalry has existed for some time with PSV and stems from various causes, such as the different interpretations of whether current national and international successes of both clubs correlates and the supposed opposition between the Randstad and the province.

The matches between these two teams is commonly referred to as "De Topper" "The Topper" , and involves the two most trophy-laden sides in Dutch football and is essentially a clash of two competing schools of thought in Dutch football.

Historically, PSV compete with a workmanlike ethic, preferring a more robust 4—3—1—2 or 4—2—3—1, typically shunning the seductive 4—3—3 approach favoured in Amsterdam.

Aside from Feyenoord and PSV, Ajax have several other rivalries, although in most cases the sentiment is mostly felt by the opposition and is more directed towards Ajax, with one of them being Utrecht.

In , supporters from both clubs were banned from attending away matches for five years due to frequent violent outbreaks and clashes.

Years of not competing in the same league resulted in less frequent match-ups, until tensions finally settled between the Amsterdam clubs.

Ajax are known for having fanatic core supporter-groups, of which F-Side and VAK are the most famous. F-Side were founded on 3 October , and are situated right behind the goal in the Johan Cruyff Arena, on the southern end of the stadium in rows — If in any match Ajax should win the coin toss, the second half of the match Ajax always play towards the south-end of the stadium.

Row were founded in and are situated in the Zuidhoek South corner of the stadium on the upper ring in rows — The group was originally situated on the North-West side of the stadium in row , from where it derives its name, until relocating to their current place in the stands in Neither F-Side or VAK have seats in their sections of the stadium, and both groups stand for the duration of the match.

It is noteworthy that not all stadiums share the capacity of the Johan Cruyff Arena. The Supporters Club Ajax Dutch: Supportersvereniging Ajax is officially the largest supporters club in the Netherlands with 94, members.

This graph displays the average attendance for home matches of Ajax from —, whereby the difference in capacity of the De Meer Stadion and the Johan Cruyff Arena est.

Historically, Ajax was popularly seen as having "Jewish roots". In the s, the club began trying to persuade fans to drop their Jewish image.

The film was directed by Nirit Peled, an Israeli living in Amsterdam, and an independent film maker who offers a very personal view into the game, the lore of Ajax and its relation to Judaism from both the supporters as well as from a Jewish perspective.

Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. For the reserve squad of Ajax see: For a complete list, see main article.

Of those 45 members 40 have since passed away. Five members still remain, having been reduced from eight members after Piet Keizer denounced his membership, seven after the passing of Johan Cruyff and six after the passing of Uri Coronel.

The remaining 40 honorary members who have since died: The Club van is the official list of Football players who have appeared in one hundred or more official matches for AFC Ajax.

The club currently has a total of members with Daley Blind being the latest addition. Ajax himself Sjaak Swart , who appeared in league matches for Ajax 1.

Lucky Ajax participate in at least one match a year, usually in the name of charity, and commonly at football ceremonies to bid farewell to retiring players.